Exam DP-203 topic 1 question 45 discussion

HOTSPOT -
You are building an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool that will contain a fact table for transactions from the first half of the year 2020.
You need to ensure that the table meets the following requirements:
✑ Minimizes the processing time to delete data that is older than 10 years
✑ Minimizes the I/O for queries that use year-to-date values
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Hot Area:

Suggested Answer:
Box 1: PARTITION -
RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES is used with PARTITION.
Part 2: [TransactionDateID]
Partition on the date column.
Example: Creating a RANGE RIGHT partition function on a datetime column
The following partition function partitions a table or index into 12 partitions, one for each month of a year's worth of values in a datetime column.
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [myDateRangePF1] (datetime)
AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES ('20030201', '20030301', '20030401',
'20030501', '20030601', '20030701', '20030801',
'20030901', '20031001', '20031101', '20031201');
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-partition-function-transact-sql